Home Chapter 10 Maxuino/Arduino controlling a servo motor

Site Search

GTranslate

Chinese (Simplified) French German Italian Portuguese Russian Spanish
Maxuino/Arduino controlling a servo motor

 

 

You can control a servo motor very easily with Maxuino running on your Arduino. You attach the servo motor is exactly the same as you would for controlling the motor off of the Arduino UNO directly.

 

CC Image of Arduino attached to servo motors from Arduino.org

 

Schematic of Servo motor attached to your Arduino

 

CC Schematic of how to attach a servo motor to Arduino.org


/* Sweep

by BARRAGAN <http://barraganstudio.com>

This example code is in the public domain.

modified 8 Nov 2013

by Scott Fitzgerald

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Sweep

*/


#include <Servo.h>


Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo

// twelve servo objects can be created on most boards


int pos = 0;    // variable to store the servo position


void setup() {

myservo.attach(9);  // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object

}


void loop() {

for (pos = 0; pos <= 180; pos += 1) { // goes from 0 degrees to 180 degrees

// in steps of 1 degree

myservo.write(pos);              // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'

delay(15);                       // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position

}

for (pos = 180; pos >= 0; pos -= 1) { // goes from 180 degrees to 0 degrees

myservo.write(pos);              // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'

delay(15);                       // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position

}

}

 

While the servo motor can be controlled very nicely from the Arduino IDE, it can also be controlled by Max MSP and Jitter talking to the Arduino through Maxuino.

Copyright Ken Rinaldo

 

MAX MSP lessons continue in Chapter 11